Exactly. Washington State legalized medical marijuana some years ago. Not long after that, the feds closed all the medical marijuana dispensers in Eastern Washington. A licensed physician can still write a prescription for it, but if there's nowhere you can buy it, what's the point really? This will be no different.
“Exactly. Washington State legalized medical marijuana some years ago. Not long after that, the feds closed all the medical marijuana dispensers in Eastern Washington. A licensed physician can still write a prescription for it, but if there’s nowhere you can buy it, what’s the point really? This will be no different.”
I am not so sure. The walls have finally been breached.
Medical marijuana is legal throughout much of the nation and now states are legalizing the recreational use of pot. In every upcoming election there will be more and more states where recreational use becomes legal. It is inevitable. There is a goldmine of tax revenue for states that wish to permit, regulate and tax.
No government at any level ever declined to expand its regulatory and taxing authority — especially when demanded to do so by citizens. In this case, the citizens demand legal marijuana so the states will oblige by creating agencies, regulating and taxing.
It is one thing for the feds to close a handful of establishments down. It is quite another to deny state governments new revenue — that people are voting for in a round about sort of way.